Meghan Barker

Communications and Engagement Director for @ACLUofAlaska. Formerly organizing at @savebristolbay | she/her | views are my own.

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

Up next- I’m so excited to join @ACLUofAlaska as the new Communications Director at the end of the month. It’s an honor to be chosen to support this work and I can’t wait to apply my advocacy skills to other issues that impact our Alaska community. ✊🏼🏛️

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

@alaskanrobby More resources in other languages are available here too from @ACLUofAlaska. Thanks for sharing! https://t.co/yEUcsqp9qk

[alaskanrobby📍 @alaskanrobby]

Anchorage: you know somebody in your life that is undocumented. You may not know it, but you do. When Trump’s ICE comes, we all need to know the law. Here’s a “know your rights” printout in English/Spanish from the ACLU 🧵

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

I’m sorry, how is this preventative to actually stopping pedestrian accidents from happening in the first place??

[Anchorage Daily News @adndotcom]

Transportation officials plan to finish installing cameras at every traffic signal in Anchorage over the upcoming summer in hopes of increasing pedestrian and bicyclist safety https://t.co/rNocX5kgsu

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

The way people warned me about Anchorage when I moved from Homer in 2018…. The gasps I got when I told them I moved to Spenard.

[Matt Tunseth @MattTunseth]

Homer has religious fanatics pulling drive-by shootings but please tell me more about how Anchorage has fallen.

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

Hey @RepVance - your silence is deafening.

[Anchorage Daily News @adndotcom]

Police in Homer are investigating after someone shot into a building belonging to a local reproductive health care clinic. https://t.co/2cjydtytvC

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

Wild day.

[Anchorage Daily News @adndotcom]

The prison contractor accused of displaying the confidential health information of dozens of Alaska inmates on a public website now says the names were real, but the diagnoses were fake. https://t.co/RwRZ1S5JPB

[Scott Kendall @scooterkendall]

This veto punishes women in rural Alaska who don’t have easy access to a pharmacy.

It also will *increase* the number of abortions performed in Alaska.

The #akleg should call itself into a one-day special session to override.

[Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsAK]

The girl is the sixth person shot by Anchorage police since May. She is the fourth to be killed.

(this used to happen maybe twice a year: https://t.co/wrsMOtkjIG)

[Robyn Niayuq Burke @RobynBurkeHD40]

#akleg

[ACLU of Alaska @ACLUofAlaska]

At the ACLU of Alaska, we believe that allyship is an inherently Alaskan value.

Check out our lists of actions for parents, educators and community members to be allies of LGBTQIA2S+ people across our state. https://t.co/k2qsc2CnCH

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

Read the letter. The issues we outlined are the tip of the iceberg at DOC facilities.

[ACLU of Alaska @ACLUofAlaska]

The ACLU of Alaska hears from hundreds of incarcerated people every month, but we rarely hear from incarcerated women.

We did some digging and uncovered massive violations of constitutional rights to legal counsel at Alaska's only women's prison.

https://t.co/l9UhZ9OqQ6

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

🐕🐕New foster alert for Nala, queen of the snuggles! 2yo, 40lbs, house and crate trained, the only thing she wants is pets and cuddles and a forever home. #adoptable through AARF in Anchorage.

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

I’m proud to live in the same state as @Rep_CJMcCormick. More like him in #akleg, please.

[Rep. Andrew Gray @rep_gray]

Tonight, sadly, the AK House Majority passed the ban on trans girls in sports bill (HB 183). The vote was 22-18. Those like me who opposed the bill put up a fierce fight. Here are some excerpts. 1st is @Rep_CJMcCormick #akleg

[Burke Croft @alakanuk12]

Thank you to Reps. Gray, Armstrong, Fields, Galvin, Schrage, Mears, Dibert, Hannan, Josephson, Himschoot, Mina, and Story for being so outspoken in defense of transgender Alaskans #akleg

The love being shown from our House minority in the face of discrimination is inspirational.

[Megan T. Edge @Megtedge]

Frustrating to see so many Alaskans living without food or shelter, and to see so many children without a quality education...and then to watch #akleg spend the last days of session attacking trans youth, and trying to further criminalize substance use disorder and mental health.

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

Penalties aren’t preventative, and this doesn’t do anything to stop Alaskans from dying overdose deaths. HB 66 is a waste of what little resources we do have, and should not be advanced.

Speak up this morning before the bill is heard in SenFin Committee.https://t.co/XkwY7jmrFo

[Governor Mike Dunleavy @GovDunleavy]

As Governor, I am doing everything in my power to prevent fentanyl from claiming Alaskan lives. I’m working with the Alaska legislature to stiffen penalties for those who bring fentanyl into our state or sell drugs that lead to an overdose death. Drug traffickers and fentanyl dealers are not welcome in Alaska. #NationalFentanylAwarenessDay

Watch the “One Pill Can Kill”press conference here: https://t.co/8GWJ766yVS

[Meghan Barker @OrganizerMeghan]

Would love to know how @lisamurkowski plans to support since she has promised permanent protection for Bristol Bay for years now and has introduced nothing.

[Rep. Mary Peltola @Rep_Peltola]

Today, I introduced a bill to stop Pebble Mine.

This is the first step in the process to securing Bristol Bay for good; I look forward to continued work with Alaskans on a permanent solution for our state. https://t.co/KIdGcUMspI

[Anchorage Daily News @adndotcom]

A new Mat-Su Animal Shelter program set to start in mid-May is aimed at pairing adoptable shelter dogs with people who want to borrow them for a short day hike. https://t.co/YIxhHcYX9c

[Emily Rusch @emilyrusch]

Summer job alert! My colleague @DyaniChapman is running an environmental organizing bootcamp this summer for eight weeks in ALASKA. This is such a cool and fun opportunity for someone who is intrigued about environmental organizing as a career. https://t.co/vcaYptEPgn

[ACLU of Alaska @ACLUofAlaska]

Over the last few weeks, Jacqueline Shepherd, who investigates deaths in Alaska's prisons, uncovered a murder that occurred in DOC custody that was never reported to the family.

Read more about why DOC needs oversight and accountability. #PeopleNotPrisons https://t.co/skVais6HaZ